Section: US & Canada

WARSAW, Poland—Poland’s prime minister-designate on Friday named a new foreign minister to replace Radek Sikorski, who has been vocal internationally on the conflict in Ukraine. Grzegorz Schetyna, a 51-year-old former interior minister who recently headed the parliamentary commission for foreign affairs, was tapped as Sikorski’s...

JonesTrading’s Dave Lutz has what traders are buzzing about right now. Good Morning, and Happy Friday! Heavy volumes today, as Scotland votes “NO” / We have a “Quad Witch” expiry (Futures and Index Options expire on Open, Single Stocks on the close) / a S&P and EuroStoxx rebalance / The Alerian MLP Indicies rebalance, along with the...

Ihor Kostenok, the education “minister” of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), says that separatists rebels plan to introduce the Russian curriculum into schools under their control in Ukraine’s east. Kostenok told a news conference on September 18 that the Russian education system was “recognized...

Outside Holyrood on the drizzly morning when Scotland decided not to leave the Union, there is more relief than joy. “Yes peaked too soon,” some say. “The old and the rich came out,” say the radicals. “This was the settled will of the people,” says the establishment. On this morning, with independence rejected, it’s not yet clear what it...

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The rebel-held city of Donetsk is holding a city-wide clean-up day after months of shelling in eastern Ukraine, sending prisoners out to help remove the debris. …read more Source: The Bismarck...

A Crimean Tatar scholar says masked assailants dragged him from his car and took his passport in an attack meant to prevent him from attending a UN conference in New York. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

U.S. President Barack Obama has met with visiting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at the White House. Poroshenko went into the meeting hoping to convince the U.S. president to provide weapons to Ukrainian government forces battling pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Before the September 18 meeting with President Obama, Poroshenko...